Pieter Bout - A Landscape with a Barge Being Towed along a Canal

Pieter Bout (between 1640 and 1645 – between 17 June 1689 and 1719)Pieter Bout
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was a Flemish

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, draughtsman and printmaker. He is known mainly for his landscapes, city, coast and country views and architectural scenes painted in a style reminiscent of earlier Flemish masters such as

Jan Brueghel the Elder Jan Brueghel (also Bruegel or Breughel) the Elder ( , ; ; 1568 – 13 January 1625) was a Flemish painting, Flemish painter and Draughtsmanship, draughtsman. He was the younger son of the eminent Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, Flemish ...

. His clear and soft palette announces the 18th century.Pieter Bout
at the Prado Enciclopedia online

Life

Even while Pieter Bout was well known in his time as demonstrated by his frequent collaborations with prominent Flemish painters and his substantial output, the details of his life are not very well established. He was probably born in Brussels somewhere between 1640 and 1645. He is not identical to a Pieter Bout who was baptized in Brussels on 5 December 1658, as is erroneously stated in most sources on the artist. Pieter Bout - A Mediterranean harbour scene 2017 CKS 13674 0221 040941

Pieter Bout - A Mediterranean harbour scene 2017 CKS 13674 0221 040941

It is not known with whom he studied. He became a master in the Brussels

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in 1671 but his earliest work is dated 1664 and therefore predates his admission as a master in the Guild. On 30 November 1667, he married Joanna Garnevelt (baptized 22 October 1628-buried 29 November 1713) in the Church of St. Michael and St. Gudula in Brussels. His wife was 39 at the time of the wedding. Through this marriage he became the stepfather of the printmaker Franciscus de Bargas. Although primary sources do not confirm this, it is believed that from c. 1675 to 1677 Bout worked in Paris where he frequently collaborated with Adriaen Frans Boudewyns, a Flemish painter who resided at the time in Paris where he worked for the Gobelins Manufactory tapestry workshop.Manfred Sellink. "Bout, Pieter." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 28 January 2015 Bout returned to Brussels in 1677, where he married a second time on 9 August 1695. He remained acti De halteplaats Rijksmuseum SK-A-2558

The time of his death is not known with certainty. One source states that the artist made his will on 17 June 1689 as he was ill and was buried two days later in Brussels. Other sources claim he died in 1702 or 1719.

Work

Pieter Bout was a very prolific artist who worked in many genres. Most of his works include a landscape element and many are views of cities, villages, ports, beaches or rivers. His views are in the tradition of

. They also show similarity to the work of

David Teniers the Younger David Teniers the Younger or David Teniers II (bapt. 15 December 1610 – 25 April 1690) was a Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, draughtsman, miniaturist painter, staffage painter, copyist and art curator. He was an extremely versatile artist ...

and the landscapes of Brussels landscape painters such as Adriaen Frans Boudewyns,

Lucas Achtschellinck Lucas Achtschellinck (baptized 16 January 1626 – buried 12 May 1699) was a Southern Netherlands, Flemish landscape painter.Jacques d'Arthois, for whom he also often painted the staffage. He further painted Italianate landscapes in the manner of

Nicolaes Berchem Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1 October 1620 – 18 February 1683) was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genre ...

Some of his work is also similar to that of Pieter Casteels II, a Flemish painter known for his Italianizing landscapes and city views. His paintings often include lively scenes such as village festivals and people having fun on the ice. His paintings are lively and the brushwork is precise. His palette is clear and soft and announces the 18th century. Pieter Bout collaborated regularly with other painters. He painted the staffage in the landscapes of Adriaen Frans Boudewijns, Lucas Achtschellinck, Jacques d'Arthois,

Mathys Schoevaerdts Mathys Schoevaerdts or Matthijs Schoevaerdts (Brussels 1664; after 1710) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He is known mainly for his Landscape art, landscapes with trees, marines and genre art, genre scenes.

, Hendrick de Meijer and Lucas Smout.Matthijs Schoevaerdts and Pieter Bout, ''Market on a village square''
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Hendrick de Meijer and Pieter Bout, ''The visit of William III of Orange to Dordrecht in 1672''
at Christie's, Paris, 14 October 2021, lot 38 Pieter Bout collaborated on a beach view with Lucas Smout who painted the landscape. This work, referred to as '' Harbour and Fish Market'' (

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), possibly represents a view of the beach and port of Scheveningen as in its composition and figures it closely resembles Pieter Bout's '' Selling Fish at the Beach of Scheveningen'' (Van Ham Auctions, 11 May 2012, Lot 518). The

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attributes to Bout a religious painting entitled '' The Adoration of the Shepherds''.The Adoration of the Shepherds
at the Rijksmuseum Bout's drawings and etchings are similar to his paintings in style and subject matter.

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